Definition of "frounce" in English

noun

1. A canker in the mouth of a hawk.

2. A plait or curl.

verb

1. (rare, ambitransitive) To curl.

   • Beard untrimmed by barber's shears, Hair all frouncing 'bout his ears,

2. (rare) To crease, wrinkle, to frown.

   • He frounced his brow, and from his scornful eye Shot wrath indignant, and disdain and pride,
   • "But they know who you are?" I asked, and frounced my brow in skeptical doubt.

3. To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress.